Call for Submissions: Round The Globe Film & Music Festival

Round The Globe offers cinema & music festivals in the months of October, December, March, and June. Round The Globe focuses on shorts, not more than 30 minutes in length, but especially are in search of high-quality brief films in the 5-15 minute range. Award winners of Round the Globe Film and Music Festival agree to allow portions of their full-length film to be shown at the film festival gala event.

Film submissions may be submitted on FilmFreeway and are due by September 22, 2024. If you are new to FilmFreeway, please read the Round the Globe Film and Music Festival instructions.

For more information, visit roundtheglobemusic.com music festival website .

Space is Available for Spring ’24 in CINE 198: Post Production Workflow

Kevin May at a computerCINE 198: Post Production Workflow is an essential workshop that will help you succeed in your CINE filmmaking courses and your future filmmaking career. We explore foundational editing skills, such as media management, transcoding, and how to create a workflow to accommodate various media types. This course is recommended to be taken in conjunction with or before CINE 270 or other Production A courses.

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Apply Now for Spring Term’s CINE 426: The Art of Producing

The Art of ProducingFind Your Voice as a Producer: Learn from a Guest Producer and Guest Filmmakers!

Taught by Cinema Studies Career Instructor Alissa Phillips, CINE 426: The Art of Producing will feature lectures by a guest Producer–whose credits you will know–and additional talented guest filmmakers! Apply now for spring term 2024.

Applications are now closed.

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Sundance Institute and The Walt Disney Studios Launch the Project Advancement and Completion Fund to Support Underrepresented Directors 

Sundance InstituteLA-born filmmaker of Ryukyuan descent and UO Cinema Studies Professor of Filmmaking, Masami Kawai, is paving the way for a more inclusive cinema landscape. Kawai was selected for Sundance Institute and The Walt Disney Studios’ Project Advancement and Completion Fund, which supports nine directors currently engaged in fiction features. These talented filmmakers are all from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds. Masami’s project, Valley of Tall Grass, is a feature film that tells the story of a TV/VCR combo set thrown out, but it survives and circulates through the lives of various working-class indigenous characters of color in an Oregon town. They find forgotten memories, love, and connection through this seemingly obsolete object. Continue reading “Sundance Institute and The Walt Disney Studios Launch the Project Advancement and Completion Fund to Support Underrepresented Directors “

Sundance Directors Lab 2023 Diary: Masami Kawai

Sundance Directors Lab 2023 Diary: Masami KawaiThis week Filmmaker is publishing three diaries from writers and directors who attended the 2023 Sundance Directors Lab. We’ve already published writer-director Dania Bdeir‘s, and next up is director-writer-producer Masami Kawai, who traveled to the Lab with Valley of the Tall Grass.
 

 
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Cinema Studies is accepting applications for student Lab Monitors for the 2023-24 academic year

University of Oregon Cinema StudiesThe student Lab Monitor works in the Cinema Studies Lab located in 267 Knight Library. Their primary duties are supervising the lab space and providing assistance for students using computers during open lab times. The Lab Monitor’s other responsibilities include routine cleaning and disinfecting of the space, trouble shooting computer issues, assisting students with production software, and other routine duties.

Deadline to Apply: Friday, September 1, 2023 at 9:00am.

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